Mokrane Boudaoud is Associate Professor (Maître de Conférences) at Sorbonne University, with research affiliation at ISIR - Institut des Systèmes Intelligents et de Robotique. He received the Engineering degree in Automatic Control from the University of Science and Technology of Algiers, and a MS degree in Mechatronics and Microrobotics at the University of Franche-Comté. He obtained in 2012 the PhD degree in control engineering at Femto-st Institute. His main fields of interest are micro/nano-robotics, robust control and nonlinear modeling. He is Associate Editor for the journal Mechatronics (Elsevier) and Technical Editor for IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics .